My memory avatar!

My avatar's name is Goldie. I'm creating her to help my grandmother remember things she needs to do or remember throughout her daily.

The avatar is named after my grandmother and is a younger version of her. I chose to produce a younger vision of my grandmother because its easier for her to remember the things in the past rather than the present. I figured she'd remember a younger her. Since my grandmother is somewhat religious, I thought I'd play off the angel image as well as a younger version of her. The avatar would be dressed in a gold wrap dress and have a shining glow about her to represent the heavens. This would help my grandmother feel comfortable and at ease with the avatar as she learns how to use the avatar to help her with memory.

The avatar's main uses would be to send alerts on things to remember to do, have memory bank of images of people in her life, events that happened, helpful quotes to get my grandmother through the day without feeling disconnected.

I thought that the best way to produce this avatar was to create a virtual home similar to my grandmother's home in second life to create similarity. She would also be able to access this location through a hand-held device that would log her into secondlife and the avatar's home. This would allow my grandmother to go out and enjoy life without missing vital information from her avatar. She would also be able to post new alerts, messages, events, and people through this device. The device includes headphones and a speakerphone so she can hear the alerts, a voice recorder to record the information and a camera to take pictures of things she wanted to remember.

POSTED BY ALICIA FRANCIS